These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.